Responsio Io: Camilli Gloriosi ad controuersias de cometis peripateticas, seu potius ad calumnias, & mendacia cuiusdam peripatetici : in qva ostenditur praefatum peripateticum, non solum calumniatorem, & mendacem, verum etiam putidum esse nostri saeculi sophistam, ac Aristotelicae philosophiae deprauatorem
A 1626 Latin polemical treatise on comets by Giovanni Camillo Glorioso, printed in Venice by the Variscos press, aimed at scholars and natural philosophers answering an Aristotelian critic. The pictures are small printed decorative elements: a historiated initial D with figures in a rocky setting, a woodcut initial N showing a figure wrestling a beast, a classical scrolled cartouche above the printed name Antonio, and an ornate foliate initial I, giving a designer strong examples of early seventeenth-century Italian woodcut ornament and compact letter-based framing.
